Artist Registry
The White Columns Curated Artist Registry is an online platform for emerging and under-recognized artists to share images and information about their respective practices. The Registry seeks to create a context for artists who have yet to benefit from wider critical, curatorial or commercial support. To be eligible, artists cannot be affiliated with a commercial gallery in New York City.
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RESUME
Rujuta Rao was born in Goa, India, and is an interdisciplinary artist working across sculpture, installation, participatory performance, and book art, alongside a parallel practice of conceptual and functional garments. Her work is research driven and personal, using material investigation to explore migration, place, family history, and hospitality. Rao received her MFA in Interdisciplinary Art from Parsons School of Design, New York (2014), and her BFA in Sculpture from Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda (2011). She is a certified Japanese Sake Adviser through the Sake Service Institute International, Tokyo, and sake sommelier candidate. She is currently an artist-in-residence at The Here & There Collective (NY) and has participated in residencies and fellowships including the Bemis Center (Omaha, NE); SOMA Summer (MX); Center for Book Arts (NY); NYFA Immigrant Artist Mentoring Program (NY); Asia Art Archive in America’s Leadership Camp (NY); CCA Islands Travel Fellowship (Japan); and the Civita Institute Fellowship (Italy). Rao’s work has been exhibited at The Kitchen (NY), Experimenter Gallery (IN), Printed Matter / St. Marks (NY), Center for Book Arts (NY), Anthology Film Archives (NY), The Film-Makers’ Cooperative (NY), Tufts University Art Galleries (MA), and New York Live Arts (NY). She was a participant in the State of Fashion Biennale 2024 (NL). Her works are held in the collections of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The New School Archives and Special Collections, and Center for Book Arts in New York. Rao lives and works in the New York metropolitan area.